March 20th 2015 – Solar Totality!

Solar totality as seen from the deck of the Fred Olsen cruise ship MS Boudicca on the morning of March 20th 2015. Despite walking out into a heavy snow storm at 5am, a bit of tenacity, positional adjustment and plain old luck brought MS Boudicca into a patch of sea 230 miles north of the Faroe Islands, which had blue skies! A more detailed report will follow but for the moment here are a few shots of the event…